[webkit-dev] Best way to disable JavaScript

[Jochen Eisinger]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn at chromium.org>wrote:

>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Geoffrey Garen <ggaren at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> There are problems with mode (2):
>>
>> * It breaks features that are implemented in JavaScript.
>>
>> The Web Inspector, bookmarklets, extensions, Safari Reader, and Safari
>> autofill all run JavaScript. This means that they break when users disable
>> JavaScript.
>>
>>
> The web inspector works even with JS disabled in Safari (I filed the very
> first bug about this actually back when it crashed :)) and I just tested
> and Reader works fine too.
>
> Are there any examples of browser provided UI that actually breaks with JS
> disabled? I'm pretty sure those all run in different worlds.
>

in chromium, e.g. the ftp directory listing is generating by javascript
running on the page in the main world (so we whitelist directory listings
for javascript blocking)

-jochen


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